Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

The subject piqued my curiosity so I went and checked out the thread 
on vdrum. It's basically two people who reported being really 
unhappy, though one started out differently. Chris Jude, whose 
opinion I respect immensely, reports that he's heard more bad than 
good, though he appears not to have had firsthand experience. In the 
interests of fair play, if any cymbal is going to get its share of 
criticism, it would be a stereo, and that seems to be the case at 
vdrum. The relative location of the triggers makes them more prone 
than monos or duals to disappoint. They put more of a strain on 
technique and attention to detail. I will also admit that so far as 
basic types of e-cymbal are concerned, my least favorite design is 
the stereos, but they have advantages of budget and space that the 
others don't, and, as I said, to me the Zenbal is superior to the 
alternatives that I know. 

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Creighton,
> 
> Do you remember who trashed it on Vdrum? Well, you definitely 
can't 
> please all of the people all of the time (especially everyone at 
the 
> Roland site), but my experience, and that of very many others, 
with 
> the ZB2 is very favorable. I don't mean to diminish it by saying 
> that I don't have it anymore (I've gone exclusively to Visu-lite); 
> of all the stereo cymbals that I've tried, I rate it easily the 
> highest. I think of reliability for the stereos on two fronts: (1) 
> the probability that it will make any sound when you hit it and 
(2) 
> the probability that it will provide the expected sound when you 
hit 
> it. For me, the Zenbal almost never failed to sound, and it rarely 
> failed to make the sound I expected. It also swings, unlike the 
> similarly priced Roland CY-6 or obviously the Yamahas. By the way, 
I 
> also owned a CY-6, which I found to be mediocre. When I sold it, 
> however, VDrum people crawled out of the woodwork to buy it. So go 
> figure. Roland people have this weird love/hate loyalty to their 
> company. They trash the products like crazy, but many of them 
won't 
> budge from them.
> 
> I don't remember any particular glitches in programming it, but 
> Stephen, who has come to love his, reported that it took some time 
> to get them adjusted to the DTX module. I liked it better as two 
> crashes than as a ride, because of its layout. But I would truly 
be 
> surprised if any former Yamaha owner, who came to it, wasn't 
> impressed.
> 
> I'm kicking myself because I sold my Zenbal, as well as CY-6, to 
> members of Vdrum.com. I'd much prefer to sell within this group, 
but 
> at the time, no one here was interested. 
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Creighton Higgins" 
> <creighton@l...> wrote:
> > Hey Ed
> > Got your mail after visiting a thread at V-drums.com which 
trashed 
> the
> > Zenbals. Now I'm feeling insecure! And to think I sold a child 
to 
> buy this.
> > (it was the ugly one)
> > Have you run a ZB-2 through a DTX? Any tricks to setup?
> > Creighton
> >   -----Original Message-----
> >   From: liberatusvirus [mailto:liberatusvirus@y...]
> >   Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 8:54 AM
> >   To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> >   Subject: [DTXpress] Re: Pintechs - dual or stereo?
> > 
> > 
> >   Steward and Creighton,
> > 
> >   The Pintech Zenbal is a stereo cymbal (and a good one).
> > 
> >   Ed
> > 
> >   --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Creighton Higgins"
> >   <creighton@l...> wrote:
> >   > Stewart
> >   > I'm thinking it's stereo since it's chokeable which usually 
> means
> >   the rim
> >   > has an FSR (Force Sensitive Resistor?). I have one UPSing to 
> me as
> >   we speak
> >   > from the good folk at Drumbalaya. When it comes and I get it 
to
> >   work- will
> >   > be back to share.
> >   >
> >   > Creighton
> >   >   -----Original Message-----
> >   >   From: moosetication [mailto:moosetication@y...]
> >   >   Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 7:54 PM
> >   >   To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> >   >   Subject: [DTXpress] Pintechs - dual or stereo?
> >   >
> >   >
> >   >   Since it seems to have been fairly comprehensively 
> demonstrated
> >   that
> >   >   I am mentally two lugs short of a complete set, can 
someone 
> tell
> >   me
> >   >   if the Zenbal ZB2 is a genuine dual zone or a stereo?
> >   >
> >   >   Stewart
> >   >
> >   >
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